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Googlifications is an interesting little OS X Cocoa freeware program by Michael Norris that keeps track of new results for Google searches. Ergo If you wish to be notified every time a new webpage links to your homepage, or every time someone mentions your name, or a friend's name, on the Internet, you can use Googlifications. Sounds good in theory. The first time you run Googlifications you will be asked to enter a Google API Key. This is a special number that Google will send you when you register to use their APIs. This is a free service, and is necessary for using this program. The Google APIs service is a beta service offered by Google to developers to allow them to extend the existing services offered by Google. There is a limit of 1000 searches per day per key. I clicked on the "Get new Google key" button, and iCab dutifully took me to the Google Services registration page, where signup was quick, simple, and straightforward. Google immediately emailed me my new registration key, which I entered in the Googlifications window, and I was in business, sort of. The Googlifications main window is divided into two panes. The left-hand pane lists the Google queries that you're interested in. The right-hand pane lists any new results that may have come in. 
To add a new Google query, click the "+" button above the Queries pane. This will prompt you for a search string. Once you've entered this, Googlifications will start searching Google for your query string. Because Googlifications is only interested in any new results, you won't be able to view any of the results that are found in the first search. If you wish to see these, you can simply view them in any web browser by going to Google. I tried entering my name, and there I ran a-cropper of a problematical limitation of this program. If any query returns more than 1000 results, an error will occur and it will be automatically removed from the query list. (Norris says that future versions may make this a little more user-friendly.) Anyway, my moniker is posted on the Web a lot more than 1,000 times, so as far as I can fathom, Googlifications will not work to monitor searches for "Charles W. Moore" I had more success with the name of the small rural Nova Scotia community I live in, which has a distinctive spelling, and Googlifications came up with 182 hits for it, so the program does work within its stated limitations. Once you've done your initial search, you can click the "Check Now" button in the bottom right-hand corner to check Google for any new results for your queries. If any of your queries have new results, the query string will turn red, and when you click on it, the new queries will be displayed in the right-hand pane. Double-click on any of the new hit URLs in the right-hand pane to launch your browser and go to that URL. Click the button with the tick mark in it to remove that new hit from the new hit pane. (This button marks the URL as "read".) You can also schedule Googlifications to check for updated results. Go to the Preferences... menu item to set these. (NB: Googlifications must be launched for these schedules to work.) Googlifications uses a "filtered" search, which is the default search type for Google. This means that many duplicates and similar pages within the same website are stripped out, resulting in faster searches. This also means that the number of returned pages is often much less than Google's approximation at how many results will *really* be returned. Because of this, you may notice a few discrepancies with the progress bars when checking Google (i.e. seaches finishing well before the progress bar reaches the end, or the progress reaching the end some time before the search finishes).
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Googlifications is freeware.
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Re:AppendNote (Re: OS X 316) Re: twin sons of different mothers? (Word 5.1 in Cllassic Mode) OS X Multiple Users Kernel Panics and USB From Chris Long Charles: From Noel McRae I once saw something about which fonts I could take out and which I had to leave in OS X. -- I'm no expert, but I've pared my list down to the following, with no ill effects so far: Library > Fonts:
Courier New
System > Library > Fonts:
Symbol.dfont
I have a hunch that a few more could be pulled -- I'm not sure. but I've yanked all the Japanese stuff and a number of others i don't like/don't need. The only caveat I can think of is that some apps require certain fonts -- eg; I don't use AppleWorks -- that may (?) require something not listed above.
later,
From Tom Bender Greetings Friend! Things go well for you, I trust.
I believe TE+ works correctly with AppendNote--TE+ supports the Services menu. Be sure that AppendNote's command-shift-J shortcut doesn't conflict with one of your TE+ "Scripts menu" shortcuts, however. BTW, AppendNote is an elegant utility for those in need of such a function. I guess the new OS X "Services Menu" is one of those things (like speech recognition) that I've played with, but haven't really integrated into my workflow yet. Hmmm...
Blessings,
Howdy Tom;
Nope. I tried it just before I wrote that paragraph, and double-checked after receiving your note. Bupkis. The Services menu is there in TE+, but when I click it, nothing. Not just Appendnote. No submenu appears at all.
Am I doing something wrong?
This is not a big deal to me functionally, as I am more interested in getting text *into* TE+ than copying snippits of what's already there. AppendNote works great for grabbing bits of text from the Web in Safari.
Charles Re: twin sons of different mothers? (Word 5.1 in Cllassic Mode) From Chris Long Hey Charles:
a) the speed is a MAJOR rush, for me
But I ain't goin back. I LOVE the OS X apps! esp those browsers! and Watson! and Netnewswire (lite)! and new iTunes! iChat! and ... I'm even warming up to apple's MAIL program. yow!
later,
Hi Chris;
Word 5.1 runs quite well in Classic Mode, but I couldn't get the OS X Command > Shift > 4 screenshot function to copy PICT images embedded in Word.documents, and neither would the images copy to the OS X Clipboard using the Copy command. Command > Shift > 3 worked, but it was too much hassle converting the humongous full-screen PDF images to something useful and editable, so I finally gave up in disgust and booted into good ol' dependable OS 9, where I could just copy and paste them into Color It! 4.1.
Just another reason why Classic Mode is NOT an adequate substitute for OS 9 dual-booting for me. I have literally thousands of archived Word 5.1 documents, and I'm not about to purchase Word X just for the purpose of accessing them, even if they would work in the situation described above, which I doubt.
That said, I now miss OS X when I'm running OS 9 more than I miss OS 9 when I'm running OS X. I agree that it's still half-baked and quite raggedy in certain areas (flaky keyboard and mouse response remain bugbears), but I'm getting addicted.
Charles From Eric MacKnight Hello Charles, I noted your recent "can't imagine going back" piece about OS X, and I agree. However, I have discovered that when one enters the land of multiple users, things can get pretty hairy pretty fast. I've had a series of problems with unexplained crashes. Luckily, I recently bought a FireWire drive for backup, so I decided to clean off the iMac's hard drive and restore from the firewire drive. Well. Now I'm having all sorts of problems with the secondary accounts. My daughter, for example, sets up her preferences as she likes them, but when she logs out the preferences aren't saved, and she has to start from Square One when she logs in again. Her Mail.app account is also screwed up. So I am now in the process of doing yet another clean install, and this time I will try just copying documents, instead of copying the entire Users directory, when I re-build the drive--that is, if I can get around the permissions problems. The whole business of permissions becomes very complex with multiple users when you get into copying, backing up, and restoring folders. I used to chuckle about those radio call-in shows with all the Windows users complaining about their bat files and dlls, etc. I'm feeling quite a bit more empathetic now. OS X is definitely better than OS 9, but it's also much more complicated to fix when things go wrong. Eric
Hi Eric;
I guess this is one of those "is it a bug or a feature?" issues. I'm the only user of my production machines, so the multipe users aspect of OS X has not loomed large for me. I do have an alternate account configured on the Pismo, plus a Root account, but they are only used for troubleshooting and maintenance.
I assume you're running the Repair Permissions routine in Disk Utility from time to time. I'm also now an enthusiastic convert to using Cocktail or MacJanitor on a regular basis for system maintenance.
I don't use the Mail app. for backwards compatibility reasons (I want to retain dual-booting ambidexterity with OS 9 for a while yet). A solution to that part of your problem might be to just get a different email client for your daughter or yourself, and have just one person use Mail.
Charles
From Rich Bayer Good day Charles, In light of the nervousness surrounding the upgrade to OS X 10.2.5 if one is using a USB hub that may produce kernel panics I'd like to point you and your readers to an article at OS X Hints that indicates several hubs that seem to cause no problems whatsoever. I don't even have OS X yet but I read this site every day for its educational value and in anticipation of the day I'll be able to make the switch. With sites like Applelinks and your Odyssey series and OS X Hints et al, I'll be able to make the transition go much easier. Thanks for the trailbreaking.
Cheers,
Hi Rich;
Thanks so much for the tip. I will definitely check that OS X Hints page on USB hubs out.
Charles
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